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Data Quality in Trade Compliance: Governance Practices That Prevent Costly Errors and Delays

Melissa Merkle Manager, Star USA Data quality is a major risk control across trade compliance. Data quality issues like inconsistent classifications, unreliable origin determinations, and incomplete valuation details can compound across systems. They may not be noticed for a while,…

Case Study on Navigating a CF-28: How a Newly Independent Manufacturer Turned Its First Compliance Test Into a Win

Eight months isn’t a lot of time, but that’s precisely how long we had to help a brand-new independent industrial paints manufacturer build a compliance program from the ground up, after divesting from its former organization. Then, right after the dust settled, they received a CF-28…

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Designing a High-Performance Trade Compliance Program Operating Model: Roles, Routines, and KPIs

Melissa Merkle Manager, Star USA Trade compliance programs fail in predictable ways. Not because companies lack the intention to get it right, but because good intentions don’t hold up when there’s no clear structure behind them. When performance is measured by activity rather than…

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How Strong Trade Compliance Helps You Win and Keep Enterprise Customers

Melissa Merkle Education & Outreach Manager, Star USA If “we’re working on it” is your current trade compliance strategy, enterprise customers have already noticed. Blunt? Perhaps, but it’s the kind of honest observation that saves a lot of time.   Large, sophisticated customers are no longer…

Best Compliance Practices in Remote Work

Critical Considerations to Maintain Regulatory Awareness Over the past year, businesses across the world have been forced to revamp their working models and has led to a large proportion of the workforce being asked to work remotely.  There is a…

HTSUS Classification

Your Guide to Classify Goods for Customs The Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) is the primary resource for determining tariff classifications for goods imported into the United States.  Classifying your goods can be tricky because parts and…